Every No. 1 Country Single of the Eighties: Conway Twitty, “I’d Love to Lay You Down” November 9, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 6 Conway Twitty subverts expectations with his first No. 1 single of the decade.
Album Review: Kane Brown, Different Man October 21, 2022 Kevin John Coyne 6 Kane Brown’s Different Man is a country album without precedent..
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #30-#21 August 30, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 16 It’s a great day to be two posts away from the end of this list.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #90-#81 July 26, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 12 Wasting away again in Siriusville.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #180-#171 June 16, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 13 The best single of the nineties appears 170+ places too soon.
Every #1 Country Single of the Nineties: Ronnie Milsap, “Stranger Things Have Happened” June 8, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 12 Another huge seventies and eighties country star tops the charts for the last time.
Album Review: Kane Brown, Mixtape Vol. 1 April 21, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 10 Kane Brown’s latest release gives renewed hope for what contemporary country music can be.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #250-#241 April 1, 2021 Kevin John Coyne 10 So many classics in this section that the non-classics seem more out of place than usual.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #500-#491 July 27, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 6 As we enter the top 500 of this list, a YouTube playlist of the available entries can now be found at the end of the post.
A Country Music Conversation: Sirius Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time, #580-#571 May 26, 2020 Kevin John Coyne 8 Zack joins the conversation as we work our way through the next ten entries of this purgatory of a list.